22 August 2017 AMITY LAW TIMES AMITY LAW SCHOOL, AUMP VOLUME I ISSUE IV 22August 2017 “ IT IS NOT WISDOM BUT AUTHORITY THAT MAKES A LAW ”. - THOMAS HOBBES LEFT TO RIGHT: 1-Yoga Day Celebration 2 - Mr. Mohit Sharma (Offg. HoI) felici- tating Pro Vice Chancellor Dr. M. P. Kaushik 3 - Rangoli prepared by ALS students 4 –Students and faculty mem- bers of ALS. 22 August 2017 AMITY LAW TIMES AMITY LAW SCHOOL, AUMP From The Chief Editor’s Desk Is There Right To Privacy? The hearing before the nine-Judge bench of the Supreme Court on whether there is a fundamental right to privacy in India is go- ing on, with the counsel for petitioners making a strong pitch in favour of the right to privacy. This is based on mandatory linking of Aadhar card with various services. This cropped up in the con- text of legal challenges to the Aadhaar or the unique identity number that has now become the bedrock of government welfare programmes, the tax administration network and online financial transactions. A total of 22 cases challenging various aspects of Aadhaar are being heard by the court. It is no doubt that right to privacy is one of the essential offshoots of the right to life and liberty. The right of privacy cannot be absolute right and subject to certain reasonable re- strictions, which are necessary to protect the interest of general public because salus populi suprema lex. No fundamental right can be regarded as absolute so with the right of privacy. Various jurist have defined sources of law in various terms. According to Savigny, a ju- rist of Historical School, basis of law is to be found in volksgeist, which means people’s con- sciousness or will. According to the sociological jurisprudence, the famous jurist Roscoe Pound said that law is an instrument of social engineering and meant to reduce clashes of interest amongst individual of a society and between various societies. As the social structure is dynamic so is law, therefore it is required that interpretation of any fundamental rights of individual must be made in conformity with the prevailing social condition. It is observed that there is an overlap between the principles of liberty, dignity and pri- vacy. In between liberty and privacy, there is a step of dignity. Dignity flows from liberty and privacy from dignity. In order to bring more clarity on the subject all these aspects of law re- lating to Right to privacy are necessary to be decided by Apex court . SACHIN KUMAR SHARMA Assistant Professor Amity Law School, AUMP, GWALIOR 22 August 2017 AMITY LAW TIMES AMITY LAW SCHOOL, AUMP LIFE @ AMITY 22 August 2017 AMITY LAW TIMES AMITY LAW SCHOOL, AUMP LIFE @ AMITY 22 August 2017 AMITY LAW TIMES AMITY LAW SCHOOL, AUMP No Coercive Action against Lawyers & Law Firms for Non- Compliance with GST until Centre’s Clarification: Delhi HC The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to abstain from taking any coercive action against lawyers and law firms for non-compliance with any le- gal requirement under the CGST Act, IGST Act or the DGST Act till further clari- fication is issued by the Centre and the State in this regard. The Bench comprising Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Pratibha M. Singh opined that as of date, there is no clarity on whether all legal services provided by legal practitioners and firms would be governed by the reverse charge mechanism. It observed, “If in fact all le- gal services are to be governed by the reverse charge mechanism than there would be no purpose in requiring legal practitioners and law firms to compulsorily get registered under the CGST, IGST and/or DGST Acts. Those seeking voluntary reg- istration would anyway avail of the facility under Section 25 (3) of the CGST Act (and the corresponding provision of the other two statutes). There is therefore prima facie merit in the contention of Mr Mittal that the legal practitioners are un- der a genuine doubt whether they require getting themselves registered under the three statutes.” The Court is hearing a Petition filed by J.K. Mittal & amp; Com- pany, which has challenged notifications issued by the Centre and Delhi Govern- ment, wherein it was prescribed that advocates and law firms. Besides, the Peti- tioner has also sought clarification on the need for re-registration for lawyers who had already registered themselves under the Finance Act, 1994. The Court has now asked the Centre and the State to respond to the Petition, listing the matter on 18 July. It clarified that if an appropriate clarification is not issued by the next date, it will proceed to pass appropriate interim directions. 22 August 2017 AMITY LAW TIMES AMITY LAW SCHOOL, AUMP SC Constitution Bench to Hear Aadhar Case from July 18 The Chief Justice of India has agreed to constitute a Five Judge Bench to hear whether Aadhar violates right to privacy. The Five Judge Bench to start to hear the matter on July 18. The assurance came after senior advocate Shyam Diwan repre- senting several petitioners made an urgent mentioning. Last week a bench headed by Justice Jasti Chelameswar had asked lawyers representing various petitioners to appear before Chief Justice’s bench and request setting up of a Constitution bench. It was in August 2015, the Supreme Court bench of Justices J. Chelameswar, S.A. Bobde, and C. Nagappan decided to refer the challenges to the Aadhar program to a constitution bench, especially to determine the existence of a right to privacy as a fundamental right. In the reference order, the three Judge Bench observed as fol- lows;"We are of the opinion that the cases on hand raise far reaching questions of importance involving interpretation of the Constitution. What is at stake is the am- plitude of the fundamental rights including that precious and inalienable right un- der Article 21. If the observations made in M.P. Sharma (supra) and Kharak Singh (supra) are to be read literally and accepted as the law of this country, the funda- mental rights guaranteed under the Constitution of India and more particularly right to liberty under Article 21 would be denuded of vigor and vitality. At the same time, we are also of the opinion that the institutional integrity and judicial disci- pline require that pronouncement made by larger Benches of this Court cannot be ignored by the smaller Benches without appropriately explaining the reasons for not following the pronouncements made by such larger Benches. With due respect to all the learned Judges who rendered the subsequent judgments; where right to privacy is asserted or referred to their Lordships concern for the liberty of human beings, we are of the humble opinion that there appears to be certain amount of ap- parent unresolved contradiction in the law declared by this Court. Therefore, in our opinion to give a quietus to the kind of controversy raised in this batch of cases once for all, it is better that the ratio decidendi of M.P. Sharma and Kharak Singh is scrutinized and the jurisprudential correctness of the subsequent decisions of this Court where the right to privacy is either asserted or referred be examined and au- thoritatively decided by a Bench of appropriate strength. 14. We, therefore, direct 22 August 2017 AMITY LAW TIMES AMITY LAW SCHOOL, AUMP Stay On Cattle Rules Applicable To Entire Country: SC The Supreme Court today disposed of four petitions which challenged the May 25 Central notification, banning sale and purchase of cows and buffaloes at animal markets for slaughter after the union government submitted that it is taking a re-look. The Centre also said it is not seeking a vacation of the stay of the notifi- cation by the Madras High Court which meant that the rules anyways cannot be implemented. Then the Supreme Court held that the stay is applicable to the entire country. It is pointed out by the Centre that the issues under challenge are subject matter of fresh consideration and concerned authorities are seized of it. It is sub- mitted that the rules will be re-notified after appropriate changes. In the above view of the matter we do not find any reason to keep the petitions pending, a bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud ruled. Madurai Bench of the High Court of Madras stayed the operation of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Market) Rules, 2017 in May. During the hearing senior advocate, Kapil Sibal appearing for two petitioners said “we only want an assur- ance; a message should go out that business is not stopped, that rules will not be implemented without a re-look. CJI Khehar also said in the order: we are of the view that as and when fresh notification is issued sufficient time shall be granted by government for implementation of the notified amendments so that till the rules are implemented there is sufficient time for parties to assail the same. ASG Nara- simha for the Centre said all stakeholders will be consulted and all representations and prayers in various petitions pending in various courts will be considered while re-notifying the rules. Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal, Salman Khurshid and Chander Uday Singh ap- peared for petitioners and a vacation bench of the court comprising of Justice R K Agrawal and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul issued notice to Centre on plea filed by a Hyderabad-based lawyer Fahim Qureshi, president of the All India Jamiatul Qure- shi Action Committee. He termed the Centre’s order as “discriminatory” and “unconstitutional” as it prevented cattle traders from earning their livelihood.